Annex I | Sectors of high criticality

Sector	Subsector	Type of entitymeans a natural or legal person created and recognised as such under the national law of its place of establishment, which may, acting under its own name, exercise rights and be subject to obligations;
Energy	Electricity	Electricity undertakings as defined in Article 2, point (57), of Directive (EU) 2019/944 of the European Parliament and of the Council(^1^), which carry out the function of ‘supply’ as defined in Article 2, point (12), of that Directive
		Distribution system operators as defined in Article 2, point (29), of Directive (EU) 2019/944
		Transmission system operators as defined in Article 2, point (35), of Directive (EU) 2019/944
		Producers as defined in Article 2, point (38), of Directive (EU) 2019/944
		Nominated electricity market operators as defined in Article 2, point (8), of Regulation (EU) 2019/943 of the European Parliament and of the Council(^2^) Market participants as defined in Article 2, point (25), of Regulation (EU) 2019/943 providing aggregation, demand response or energy storage services as defined in Article 2, points (18), (20) and (59), of Directive (EU) 2019/944 Operators of a recharging point that are responsible for the management and operation of a recharging point, which provides a recharging service to end users, including in the name and on behalf of a mobility service provider
	District heating and cooling	Operators of district heating or district cooling as defined in Article 2, point (19), of Directive (EU) 2018/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council(^3^)
	Oil	Operators of oil transmission pipelines
		Operators of oil production, refining and treatment facilities, storage and transmission
		Central stockholding entitiesmeans a natural or legal person created and recognised as such under the national law of its place of establishment, which may, acting under its own name, exercise rights and be subject to obligations; as defined in Article 2, point (f), of Council Directive 2009/119/EC(^4^)
	Gas	Supply undertakings as defined in Article 2, point (8), of Directive 2009/73/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council(^5^)
		Distribution system operators as defined in Article 2, point (6), of Directive 2009/73/EC
		Transmission system operators as defined in Article 2, point (4), of Directive 2009/73/EC
		Storage system operators as defined in Article 2, point (10), of Directive 2009/73/EC
		LNG system operators as defined in Article 2, point (12), of Directive 2009/73/EC
		Natural gas undertakings as defined in Article 2, point (1), of Directive 2009/73/EC
		Operators of natural gas refining and treatment facilities
	Hydrogen	Operators of hydrogen production, storage and transmission
Transport	Air	Air carriers as defined in Article 3, point (4), of Regulation (EC) No 300/2008 used for commercial purposes
		Airport managing bodies as defined in Article 2, point (2), of Directive 2009/12/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council(^6^), airports as defined in Article 2, point (1), of that Directive, including the core airports listed in Section 2 of Annex II to Regulation (EU) No 1315/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council(^7^), and entitiesmeans a natural or legal person created and recognised as such under the national law of its place of establishment, which may, acting under its own name, exercise rights and be subject to obligations; operating ancillary installations contained within airports
		Traffic management control operators providing air traffic control (ATC) services as defined in Article 2, point (1), of Regulation (EC) No 549/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council(^8^)
	Rail	Infrastructure managers as defined in Article 3, point (2), of Directive 2012/34/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council(^9^)
	Rail	Railway undertakings as defined in Article 3, point (1), of Directive 2012/34/EU, including operators of service facilities as defined in Article 3, point (12), of that Directive
	Water	Inland, sea and coastal passenger and freight water transport companies, as defined for maritime transport in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 725/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council(^10^), not including the individual vessels operated by those companies
		Managing bodies of ports as defined in Article 3, point (1), of Directive 2005/65/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council(^11^), including their port facilities as defined in Article 2, point (11), of Regulation (EC) No 725/2004, and entitiesmeans a natural or legal person created and recognised as such under the national law of its place of establishment, which may, acting under its own name, exercise rights and be subject to obligations; operating works and equipment contained within ports
		Operators of vessel traffic services (VTS) as defined in Article 3, point (o), of Directive 2002/59/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council(^12^)
	Road	Road authorities as defined in Article 2, point (12), of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/962(^13^) responsible for traffic management control, excluding public entitiesmeans a natural or legal person created and recognised as such under the national law of its place of establishment, which may, acting under its own name, exercise rights and be subject to obligations; for which traffic management or the operation of intelligent transport systems is a non-essential part of their general activity
	Road	Operators of Intelligent Transport Systems as defined in Article 4, point (1), of Directive 2010/40/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council(^14^)
Banking		Credit institutions as defined in Article 4, point (1), of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council(^15^)
Financial market infrastructures		Operators of trading venues as defined in Article 4, point (24), of Directive 2014/65/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council(^16^)
Financial market infrastructures		Central counterparties (CCPs) as defined in Article 2, point (1), of Regulation (EU) No 648/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council(^17^)
Health		Healthcare providers as defined in Article 3, point (g), of Directive 2011/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council(^18^)
		EU reference laboratories referred to in Article 15 of Regulation (EU) 2022/2371 of the European Parliament and of the Council(^19^)
		Entitiesmeans a natural or legal person created and recognised as such under the national law of its place of establishment, which may, acting under its own name, exercise rights and be subject to obligations; carrying out research and development activities of medicinal products as defined in Article 1, point (2), of Directive 2001/83/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council(^20^) Entitiesmeans a natural or legal person created and recognised as such under the national law of its place of establishment, which may, acting under its own name, exercise rights and be subject to obligations; manufacturing basic pharmaceutical products and pharmaceutical preparations referred to in section C division 21 of NACE Rev. 2 Entitiesmeans a natural or legal person created and recognised as such under the national law of its place of establishment, which may, acting under its own name, exercise rights and be subject to obligations; manufacturing medical devices considered to be critical during a public health emergency (public health emergency critical devices list) within the meaning of Article 22 of Regulation (EU) 2022/123 of the European Parliament and of the Council(^21^)
Drinking water		Suppliers and distributors of water intended for human consumption as defined in Article 2, point (1)(a), of Directive (EU) 2020/2184 of the European Parliament and of the Council(^22^), excluding distributors for which distribution of water for human consumption is a non-essential part of their general activity of distributing other commodities and goods
Waste water		Undertakings collecting, disposing of or treating urban waste water, domestic waste water or industrial waste water as defined in Article 2, points (1), (2) and (3), of Council Directive 91/271/EEC(^23^), excluding undertakings for which collecting, disposing of or treating urban waste water, domestic waste water or industrial waste water is a non-essential part of their general activity
Digital infrastructure		Internet Exchange Pointmeans a network facility which enables the interconnection of more than two independent networks (autonomous systems), primarily for the purpose of facilitating the exchange of internet traffic, which provides interconnection only for autonomous systems and which neither requires the internet traffic passing between any pair of participating autonomous systems to pass through any third autonomous system nor alters or otherwise interferes with such traffic; providers
		DNS service providersmeans an entity that provides:publicly available recursive domain name resolution services for internet end-users; orauthoritative domain name resolution services for third-party use, with the exception of root name servers;, excluding operators of root name servers
		TLD name registries
		Cloud computing servicemeans a digital service that enables on-demand administration and broad remote access to a scalable and elastic pool of shareable computing resources, including where such resources are distributed across several locations; providers
		Data centre servicemeans a service that encompasses structures, or groups of structures, dedicated to the centralised accommodation, interconnection and operation of IT and network equipment providing data storage, processing and transport services together with all the facilities and infrastructures for power distribution and environmental control; providers
		Content delivery networkmeans a network of geographically distributed servers for the purpose of ensuring high availability, accessibility or fast delivery of digital content and services to internet users on behalf of content and service providers; providers
		Trust service providersmeans a trust service provider as defined in Article 3, point (19), of Regulation (EU) No 910/2014;
		Providers of public electronic communications networksmeans a public electronic communications network as defined in Article 2, point (8), of Directive (EU) 2018/1972;
		Providers of publicly available electronic communications servicesmeans an electronic communications service as defined in Article 2, point (4), of Directive (EU) 2018/1972;
ICT servicemeans an ICT service as defined in Article 2, point (13), of Regulation (EU) 2019/881; management (business-to-business)		Managed service providersmeans an entity that provides services related to the installation, management, operation or maintenance of ICT products, networks, infrastructure, applications or any other network and information systems, via assistance or active administration carried out either on customers’ premises or remotely; Managed security service providersmeans a managed service provider that carries out or provides assistance for activities relating to cybersecurity risk management;
Public administration		Public administration entitiesmeans an entity recognised as such in a Member State in accordance with national law, not including the judiciary, parliaments or central banks, which complies with the following criteria:it is established for the purpose of meeting needs in the general interest and does not have an industrial or commercial character;it has legal personality or is entitled by law to act on behalf of another entity with legal personality;it is financed, for the most part, by the State, regional authorities or by other bodies governed by public law, is subject to management supervision by those authorities or bodies, or has an administrative, managerial or supervisory board, more than half of whose members are appointed by the State, regional authorities or by other bodies governed by public law;it has the power to address to natural or legal persons administrative or regulatory decisions affecting their rights in the cross-border movement of persons, goods, services or capital; of central governments as defined by a Member State in accordance with national law
Public administration		Public administration entitiesmeans an entity recognised as such in a Member State in accordance with national law, not including the judiciary, parliaments or central banks, which complies with the following criteria:it is established for the purpose of meeting needs in the general interest and does not have an industrial or commercial character;it has legal personality or is entitled by law to act on behalf of another entity with legal personality;it is financed, for the most part, by the State, regional authorities or by other bodies governed by public law, is subject to management supervision by those authorities or bodies, or has an administrative, managerial or supervisory board, more than half of whose members are appointed by the State, regional authorities or by other bodies governed by public law;it has the power to address to natural or legal persons administrative or regulatory decisions affecting their rights in the cross-border movement of persons, goods, services or capital; at regional level as defined by a Member State in accordance with national law
Space		Operators of ground-based infrastructure, owned, managed and operated by Member States or by private parties, that support the provision of space-based services, excluding providers of public electronic communications networksmeans a public electronic communications network as defined in Article 2, point (8), of Directive (EU) 2018/1972;